Every week of OwlCAD in November 2026: the features that shipped and the fixes that matter when you print.
What changed in November 2026
Newest week first. A week belongs to the month its Monday falls in.
Week of November 9, 2026
New
Pictures are turned off for student accounts: image import, reference images and photo reliefs are refused, and the controls say why.
A face you tilt keeps its outline: its side walls run straight up to the tilted face, in the viewport and in STL and STEP exports. A very steep tilt stops at the limit and says so.
Measure has Set gap: type a distance, and a picked part moves so the measured gap becomes exactly that.
Scaling a face down before you push it pushes only that smaller area, leaving a ledge around it.
Split into bodies now splits a mesh with holes in it into its parts, instead of telling you to repair it first.
Fixed
A .glb file that really holds an STL opens as the STL it is, instead of failing as a broken file.
An upload the server refuses once is sent again after a moment, instead of failing the save, restore point or duplicate it belonged to.
A guest’s first save is tried again quietly before the editor says it may not have saved.
Opening a project through a public folder’s link no longer says the project is no longer shared.
Several files refused for the same reason now show that reason once.
The Privacy Policy and the school pages say exactly what is collected and where it is stored.
Moving the top face of a cylinder no longer warns that the move doesn’t match its part.
The sketch’s constraint chip no longer says “Shape defined” while the shape can still change, and it now says whether the whole sketch can still slide, turn or both.
A change from an agent connected over MCP is refused while you have that project open in the editor, instead of being lost at the tab’s next save.
In Chrome and Edge, an export that takes a few seconds now shows a Save button so you choose where the file goes, instead of downloading it on its own.
Send to print service offers a button to open the service’s page when the browser would otherwise block it as a popup.
A part hidden by a configuration or a toggle is now hidden inside components too, and the Variables panel lists those parts.
Bake to editable parts keeps the color a component copy is drawn in for a part fused into it.
Week of November 2, 2026
New
Signing in to an existing account as a guest brings your guest projects with you, including the one on screen.
When another device saves over edits you made here, the editor pauses and offers to save your edits as a new project.
Regenerate sends a job’s reference image again, and says why when it is turned off.
Long dropdowns open with a search box.
Text sign: stacked outline layers, a keyring lug you can place and join, and text on the back.
Removing a collaborator or a member, or deleting a comment, now asks first.
The File menu links the Privacy policy and the Terms.
The class join page suggests a nickname instead of a real name.
A public link is now an address of its own, and Reset link in the Share dialog replaces it: the old link, its embed code and its Customize link stop working at once.
Fixed
Signing out keeps work that is not saved yet, and File > New no longer waits on the network.
Deleting an account is no longer cut off after 60 seconds.
A crash in one panel or in the 3D view stays in that area instead of taking down the editor.
Pressing Enter in the timeline’s step editor applies the value you just typed.
Keyboard focus is visible everywhere, the first-run tour is a proper dialog, and error messages stay until you close them.
Error messages appear in your language instead of raw English, and comments show their author’s real name.
When a part with a long stack of fillets takes too long to build, the message saying so now stays on screen.